Warner Chooses Blu-ray Over HD-DVD
Warner Bros. Entertainment has just announced that it will be going Blu-ray exclusive for all of its movies starting in May. Currently Warner releases on both Blu-ray and HD-DVD and it should be interesting to see how the market adapts. Now most people (by people, I mean geeks) don’t care too much and will continue on torrenting each movie, but there are some who find this news upsetting. One group who has already shown this may effect them is HD-DVD themselves.
You’d figure HD-DVD would just shrug it off and move on, but because of this news HD-DVD has cancelled its appearance at CES this year. Now if this isn’t a move to show they’re scared, I don’t know what is. Of course, HD-DVD is still sponsoring the CES bags!
According to the new couple, there was no money exchanged and no payoff – but I say it’s safe to assume that some money did switch hands, at some point (or will at some point in the future). Why would a studio limit itself on the number of movies it can sell?
At the end of the day I still see HD-DVD as the winner, I mean… they do have the pr0n industry on their side after all.</sarcasm>
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January 6th, 2008
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Bash
January 6th, 2008
at 5:57am
Chris, I think you’re wrong on this one. Going Blu-ray exclusive actually means cost saving for the studio.
Calebbubba14
January 6th, 2008
at 7:57am
How Could They Do That, Warner Makes The Best Movies They Had To Have Gone With HD-DVD. I Already Have a HD-DVD Player I’m Not Going To Buy A Bluray, Its Just Way To Much Money!
zokamoka
January 6th, 2008
at 10:06am
Ah good to see more movie studios moving to Blu-Ray I was rooting for Blu-Ray since the beginning, hopefully HD-DVD will fade away soon(no offebse to you HD-DVD fans)
I hope this war doesnt continue on so much longer since it would be good to only have one HD format in the future.
spawnkano
January 6th, 2008
at 12:49pm
I’m very disappointed to see that HD is more than likely gonna lose the format war now. I purchased an HD-A2 on ebay which came with 12 movies. I’m very pleased with it although there are more movies on BD that I like. I was backing HD more so since the prices for players were great and they seem to be much more organized in terms of movie features and have less hardware related issues than BD. In the end I guess I’ll be in the market for a BD player sometime soon, I wont be buying a PS3 as I’m not really a big Sony fan and I’m a PC gamer. Unless HD can pull a rabbit out of their hat they are definitely finished.
Donald McDiarmid
January 6th, 2008
at 8:05pm
I have a good HD-DVD player and I will not buy a blue ray. I got stuck once with beta, it wont happen again.
mark
January 7th, 2008
at 12:10pm
I heard someone tell me the other day that HD-DVD can’t play movies in 1080p and only Blue-Ray can do that…..is that true?
nanya biznes
January 8th, 2008
at 7:33am
The p0rn industry probably does more for us than Sony at least ever
since Sony got into the movie business (or did the movie business get
into Sony?) ;-)
grannar olice
January 8th, 2008
at 9:06am
Good review, report and editorial. Facts and humor aplenty. Yes there is plenty of cupidity & stupidity to go around. Thanks for acknowledging geeks and torrenting–I resemble the first.
Ms. Olice
MrBuzz
January 8th, 2008
at 10:25am
They’re right too.
I don’t like to argue with people but I relly hope Blu-Ray wins this war, simply because I have yet to find a HD-DVD in any shop. Blu-Ray does seem to be the better technology, but I can see the manufacturers argument that HD-DVD is easier to produce. It uses the same technology as DVD production but if they want to advance to the future they’ll need to update now.
BTW, I don’t like the Idea of online marketplaces…. I’m rocking 1mbps baby – no thanks
David
January 9th, 2008
at 7:17pm
For the better part i agree with Chris in that HD has the advantage because of the Porn industry. However, I also have to ask when was the last time you saw a porn movie being sold in the HD format? Unless the porn industry fully embraces HD and really starts to pump the HD movies out it wont mater, and blue ray will win.